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dollypopup · 2 months

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if the end of episode 4 / part 1 of season 3 isn't the lady whistledown reveal and colin's blowup/meltdown about it. . .what are we even doing here? i saw someone go 'ooooh what if debling proposes and penelope says yes and that's the cliffhanger?'

my sister in christ, that literally holds ZERO weight and tension in polin's story. debling is an afterthought. a nothingburger to create extra drama. he is literally disposable as a character because we KNOW penelope and colin are endgame. that relationship will fall apart and the how of it. . .doesn't matter.

but lady whistledown? lady whistledown is the guillotine of their relationship and it has been hanging above their heads on a fraying string for YEARS now. it affects EVERYTHING that comes after. she is penelope's mask that has to be peeled off. she will flay colin's gentlemanly exterior clean to the bone.

just like. . .idk, think about the narrative structure for a second. it's being framed as a romcom, right? what does every romcom need?

a meetcute, a growing closeness, some external drama, a big relationship stresser / test, an *oh* moment, a reconciliation, a happy ending

debling is the external drama, not the stresser. debling cannot threaten polin's ship as endgame, or polin in general, because he literally does. not. matter. he was created by shonda to drive home the point that penelope is now post-glow-up (which also doesn't matter, because their relationship (debling and pen's) goes against the very heart of bridgerton as a concept, which is to fall in love in unconventional ways. oh how did the two of you meet? at a ball? dancing together? HOW riveting (not)), he is not meant to be the stress or fracture in polin as a pairing

meetcute? flashback of polin as kids growing closeness? the lessons, reveals he's a writer, the kiss external drama? she's dancing with other peeps big relationship stressor? LADY WHISTLEDOWN *oh* moment? AFTER LADY WHISTLEDOWN REVEAL. when he sees who Penelope is as a FULL person and falls for her anyway reconciliation? AFTER LADY WHISTLEDOWN REVEAL!! at their engagement ball when she publishes about Cressida not being LW even though she said she'd stop and he realizes he loves her even if she's upset him, the same way Penelope realizes *she* loves *him* even if he's upset her happy ending? you guessed it. AFTER. THE. LADY. WHISTLEDOWN. REVEAL (and honestly, probably the death of Lady Whistledown. because it depresses me to think that Penelope's ultimate happy ending is to continue writing petty gossip for the rest of her days when she could be fucking her hot husband on various beautiful beaches around the world and they write novels together)

lady whistledown is. the unearthing of her as another side of penelope. the secret cracking open, colin's facade fulling fading, his fury and humanity made tangible, penelope's nuance, her strengths and weaknesses and fears and hopes now barefaced. the harms she committed, the triumphs she accomplished. the strain it has on them as a pairing, the dynamic shift it introduces

i will eat my SHOES if part 1 doesn't end on the lady whistledown reveal because if it doesn't. . .what are we even doing here?

#polin #polin is a mirror #they are meant to see each other and be seen #what the fuck is debling reflecting about them? revealing about them?#nothing but the reality that polin's relationship can shift and change #but the thing that REALLY creates the shift IS. WHISTLEDOWN!!!!#carriage? part 2 #mirror scene? part 2 #colin's full *oh* moment? PART. TWO #and that can ONLY happen after whistledown is revealed!!!#part 1 is for pretense: confidence lessons and pining and backstory and fuck ups (not just his but ALSO pen's) building and building #until it comes to the head that- this is her #this is penelope #all she is and all she's done #and colin SEES #and when he does and he reacts the way he reacts #penelope must ALSO see him #sweet tender gentle colin- ANGRY #human #messy #we think jealousy is the depth of his personhood? fuck off #part two is for SEEING and being SEEN

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lookatthativebeenimpailed · 1 year

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PSA: I read the books first, SPOILERS

I have so much beef with shondaland at the moment. I rewatched the first two seasons of Bridgerton as one does. The first season was a vibe even though they changed certain things but not enough for it to matter per se. HOWEVER, Anthony and Kate, they ruined. Their entire relationship/courtship was ruined. Edwina was never actually attracted to Anthony in any serious manor and was actually interested in another man. Kate and Anthony's relationship blooms because they have chemistry. They goade each other and have fun.

The most pivotal scene in the entire book gets thrown to the wayside. We no longer get to see Anthony's vulnerability, the chemistry they share, and the subsequent marriage resulting from the action. Furthermore Edwina is excited for her sister.

They further ruined the first time they have sex as well. Kate is essentially entering spinster status and has reserved herself to the fact she will never BE WITH anyone. Her vulnerability in that moment is a major bonding moment for the couple and a rather sweet moment that I missed in the show.

I hated how they pitted the sisters against one another as enemies. It feels childish and stereotypical. It was a bad call.

My next peev is with the fact that Colin and Penelopes' story is next. No. No. No. We are supposed to see Benedict and Sophie. There are pivotal points in the storyline that happen in book three that set up for Colin and Penelopes story to happen. Particularly in the build-up and shift of their relationship. Not to mention the time jump. It also no longer makes sense in the timeline because that forces Eloise's story to be next. So when do we get Benedict and Sophie?!?!

Oh, and are you kidding me with revealing Penelope is lady whistledown? It ruins everything.

Why cant producers just follow the books? It's really not that hard. I promise you don't know better. There is enough intrigue without you creating unnecessary drama. We aren't talking small changes here we are talking plot changing decisions. The entirety of the series is not off because of this one thing.

Will I still watch every season? Yes.

Will I like it? Probably yes.

Will I wish they did it differently? Most definitely.

#bridgerton #colin and penelope #benedictandsophie #kate and anthony #shondaland #netflix

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betweenbeatriceandbaudelaire · 2 years

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Ranking and Review of the Bridgerton Saga

So I’ve read the 8 Bridgerton books following a manic obsession after watching the season 2 and I want to publish my ranking of the books and a brief (if possible) review for each.

Before going into this I’ll just say that each and every book in the saga is problematic and every single relationship is on the scale from controlling to downright abusive but I tried to ignore as much as I could those aspects in order to enjoy the books but sometimes it was too much (I’ll develop further in the reviews of each book).

So now for my ranking (based on preference alone and not on the merits of the books):

1. To Sir Philip, With Love (Eloïse)

2. When He Was Wicked (Francesca)

3. The Viscount Who Loved Me (Anthony)

4. An offer from a Gentleman (Benedict)

5. On The Way to the Wedding (Gregory)

6. It’s In His Kiss (Hyacinthe)

7. Romancing Mr Bridgerton (Colin)

8. The Duke and I (Daphne)

And a quick review of each book from my least fav to my fav (big spoiler alert) :

8. The Duke and I (Daphné)

This one is tricky. If it weren’t for THAT scene this book would have ranked fourth in my list, before Benedict because it has so many qualities.

First for what I liked : Simon and Daphné are actually really likable characters contrary to their characters in the show who are both unsufferable. They are engaging characters and their love story is actually sweet. Another pro is that it’s the only book with a focus on the Bridgerton family as a whole and I really liked that and missed it in the other books.

Now for the con... (endless sigh). The marital rape scene. I honestly for the life of me don’t know what went through the mind of the author when writing this scene. The end of the book acts and ask us to think that this is not a big deal. But Simon’s reaction just after it is absolutely heartbreaking. To see him being betrayed in such an unforgivable way when he was just opening himself up to another was really difficult to read. It was very ooc for Daphné to do that and it sullied her character irremediably. It’s a pity it spoiled the main character, the love story and the book as a whole. If I actually read this book first I would have stopped to read there I think.

7. Romancing Mr Bridgerton (Colin)

This one is another big sigh but for very different reasons. Penelope and Colin are my personal favorite couple both in the show and in the books but their books just... wasn’t good.

The book set out to do exactly two things : 1. creating an interesting mystery around Lady Whistledown and 2. Showing Colin’s feelings shift from friendship to love.

And it failed on both account.

Everything concerning Lady Whistledown in the book is just not interesting. Okay the whole mystery was spoiled by the show but still. Every single aspect concerning Lady Whistledown was not entertaining. The whole 100 last pages or so of the books after Colin’s and Penelope’s wedding just are an absolute yawn. The mystery wasn’t set up properly, this whole thing with Cressida Cowper was just not it. The big reveal was lacking.

The whole thing failed imo.

As for the big love story it basically went like this : for twelve years Colin didn’t care about Penelope and one day in his head it just went POOF and there, he was in love.

MAYBE that’s realistic and that’s what happens to people who fall in love with their best friends but it doesn’t make for thrilling literature.

The time skip was imo detrimental to the story because it showed the characters doing absolutely nothing with their life for 10 years and it was unrealistic to me to go 10 years without looking twice at someone and then falling madly in love in a day. I don’t understand why the author didn’t go for the absolute most obvious tool to trigger something in Colin : jealousy. It would have been so easy. Even if she was adamant on keeping Penelope an old maid who people never looked at twice, she could still have gone that way. With Penelope just chatting friendly with a gentleman acquainted with the family and Colin’s mind going wild with this.

I really hope the showrunners will go a complete different way for their season because the book just wasn’t it.

6. It’s in His Kiss (Hyacinthe)

I know this one is a fan favorite but I didn’t click with it in any way ? I liked both Gareth and Hyacinthe as characters and their story was sweet but I didn’t get into the book at any point.

Maybe it was because it lacked conflict both between the leads and in general. The only conflict here is Gareth and his dad and his dad is not even an antagonist in the story so much as he is a trigger for Gareth to act like he does.

Also the mandatory problematic aspect of the book bothered me a little more than in the other books.

Usually in the saga the brand of controlling behavior men leads show is “ Me man, smart and rational. You woman, flighty, irresponsible and doesn’t know what’s best for her” and they try to protect the heroine “for her own good”.

Here Gareth seduced Hyacinthe not for her own good but for his own good and I didn’t like that he tricked her.

Aside for that I don’t have much to say. The book wasn’t bad, I just didn’t vibe with it.

5. On the Way to the Wedding (Gregory)

Don’t have much to say about this one except that the first 200 pages are quite boring and the last 100 pages are an absolute rollercoaster with so many twist it became laughable (think the final scene of the movie Clue) but I didn’t mind at all and enjoyed the ride.

Gregory and Lucy are a sweet couple and I loved their shenanigans but I would have personally went a different way for the last book of the saga.

Also, there was really absolutely NO NEED, and I cannot stress this enough how unnecessary it was, to have Gregory tie Lucy up. Like Julia Quinn, girl, you don’t HAVE to put problematic elements in your books. You can just do without.

Overall this one was a fun read and I enjoyed it.

4. An offer from a Gentleman (Benedict)

What can I say except that a good Cinderella story always does it for me ? There is a sense of wonder in this book that is not there in any other book of the saga. The whole mascarade scene and their seclusion away from the world in My Cottage really have a kind of haze and magic out of fairy tale and it makes this book special.

The whole masquarade scene especially was well done and even though it was a “love at first sight” kind of story it didn’t feel like a cop out at all. We really understood why both characters stayed stuck on that one night even years later.

That is for the good part, for the bad part I would say the whole end of the book (with the prison scene) is a little too long.

Also Benedict’s behavior is perhaps the one of the male lead I had the most difficulty overlooking. He did the same the other male lead did but it felt different here because Sophie was really absolutely defenseless against him. When Colin or Philip are controlling and too demanding of their partner both girls still have the possibility to tell them off. Sophie does not. She has no title, no money, no connection, no family. She is truly all alone in the world, and if she secretly didn’t want the same thing Benedict does, their story would read like a thriller sooo I feel like I would love Benedict much more if he had talked to Sophie instead of menacing her to accuse her of thief.

Can’t wait to see their story on screen especially the beginning and i hope they’ll tone down the most problematic aspects of it.

3. The Viscount who Loved Me (Anthony)

Not much to say here except it was good overall. Kate and Anthony have fire chemistry and if they are not my fav, they are objectively the best couple of the saga.

Their banter was witty and sexy and I really liked it.

I have nothing bad to say about it except that maybe I preferred the show version of their love story. The show took out of the book everything that was good about them and left out everything that was less good and I think they did a fantastic job putting Anthony and Kate on screen.

Would just have liked to see more of Newton.

2. When He Was Wicked ( Francesca)

Like Kate and Anthony are objectively the best couple , this book is objectively the best of the saga. Like I said before it’s not just good for a Bridgerton book, it’s a good book period.

It felt very very different from the other books, different tone, different mood, different writing even.

The author just absolutely slayed the very difficult transition of making Francesca see Michael as just a friend to see him as a lover (and it just highlighted how badly she failed at this with Colin and Penelope but that’s another story).

The angst the author portrayed and the grief of both main characters was perfectly depicted and I really felt what was a stake during the whole story.

The ghost of John perpetually between Francesca and Michael, their inability to reach out to the other while still caring deeply I found it all beautiful.

I know this is a romance saga but more than in any other books I felt this was truly a book about love. The love Michael has for Francesca yes but also the love Francesca has for John still. The love Michael has for John still too. The love Francesca has for Michael both as a dear friend and then later a lover.

The love the mother of John has for Francesca and Michael. The love Francesca has for the child she lost.

Love and grief were so deeply intertwined in this book it gave all the action of the characters that much more meaning. Every stolen glance, every touch was weighted with so much love and grief it felt so much more powerful.

I really really enjoyed this book and if you had to read one Bridgerton book it’s this one.

1. To Sir Philip, With Love (Eloïse)

I can hear your “If When he was wicked is the best book, why isn’t it first then?”.

Because it’s not a ranking of the qualities of the books but just my personal ranking according to my own preferences.

And I fell in love with this book. Yeah Yeah I know it’s the book hated the most by the fandom, yeah yeah it’s often hailed as the most problematic one but still, it’s my fav and I love it to pieces.

Sir Philip and Eloïse are my favorite characters of the whole saga and it was the book I was the most emotionally invested in.

While I did not condone many things Philip did I truly deeply understood why he did what he did.

I understood his trauma and his response to it. He did not always do what ought to be done it’s true. But he tried so so so hard to make everybody around him happy.

He tried so hard to do the right thing and he was so self sacrificing in everything, it really did something to me to see him find some happiness for himself after his every move had been motivated by others.

Also I feel like the pairing Eloise/Philip did not live up to its full potential in the book. Sir Philip and Eloise would have a marriage not dictated by any of the contraints of the marriage of the time. It would be a real partnership were they would be equals and Eloise would be mistress of herself much more than she was in her mother’s house.

Another thing about this book I loved to bits was the step family storyline. Eloise becoming a stepmother was a journey I loved for her. Amanda and Oliver were characters I got attached to and I was glad to see them find some happiness too after the bleakness their life has been.

The scene where Phiilip finally allows himself to hug them and apologizes for not having been there for them actually made me cry.

I’m not blind to the faults of the books. I know it has a rythm problem and I would have love Eloise to have made her mind up about the marriage before her brother’s arrival but like I said these are the characters I got the most emotionally invested in. These are the characters I loved the most and wanted to find their happiness the most.

So yeah this is my favorite book of the Saga.

#book #bridgerton #jess speaks #to sir phillip with love #when he was wicked #the viscount who loved me #an offer from a gentleman #on the way to the wedding #it's in his Kiss #romancing mr bridgerton #the duke and I #I know none of these books are literary masterpieces #but still had a blast reading most of them #and I don't regret hyperfixating on them for a month

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thegirlwholied · 3 years

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@bibliophileiz: What are the Bridgerton books about?

I needed to move this reply into a post due to length because I am in Full-On Bridgerton mode at the moment!

I don’t know if you’ve already seen the trailer but Netflix, Christmas Day, the adaptation arrives and I am *in like Flynn*. I’ve been looking forward to it since it was first announced & texted my friend who’s also read Julia Quinn immediately.

I used to not read romance novels. This probably had a lot to do with the covers usually looking ridiculous to me, and the local librarians all being friends’ moms or friendly with my mom, so even if one had caught my attention... O_o. I always loved the romantic thread in my preferred sci-fi and fantasy, mystery, historicals, or more ‘literary’ reads.... but I made it to twenty-two without picking up a true ‘romance novel’, aside from Jane Austen.

And then, twenty-two, in grad school, & with all reading feeling like *work* because I was doing so much reading for my classes... I started whipping through romances like WHOA. I started them as more a “I need junk food, in reading form” escape... I’d been reading a lot of young adult and urban fantasy, & I slipped from there into paranormal romance. & then Regency. Paranormal/mystery/Regency are still my go-to romance genres.

Since starting I have frequently mentally apologized for past internal dismissal to the wonderful & hard-working & SMART women behind so many of these books (for example: Eloisa James, a Shakespeare professor when not writing romance). That said, I do consider some are more junk food than others - creating a perfect Snickers bar of a book still requires serious effort! - but, picky in all my reading, I do tend to find some writers where I think “oh, these are a cut above most of their genre and why can’t more books be like these ones.”

Julia Quinn’s books are, in my opinion, that crème brûlée at a five-star restaurant you ate at once and then think of every time you have crème brûlée somewhere else. She & Courtney Milan are the first Regency writers I think of. I’m usually not much of a rereader (though this year has been an exception! comfort reads galore!) but I have reread the Bridgerton books more than once.

Even the elements that *could* sound silly - the Bridgerton series is about a Regency family, with alphabetical names, running from Anthony to Hyacinth, and each one gets a book - are airy to perfection as delivered, with cleverness & depth - they lost their father young - and the blend of historical research with modern sensibility makes you think - i.e., the Bridgertons’ father died of a bee sting allergy, unfathomably to them, especially since he’d been stung once before (and the allergic reaction really usually isn’t until the 2nd time!). And I’ve never been able to get that out of my head, all the things we understand now but not then - my favorite Regencies all tend to play with some element of this, and the extent of the writers’ research always awes me. Best, the characters really do feel like a family; the banter’s on point, and while I’m partial to some of the romances more than others & my take on them in a reread can shift, as a whole, the books are just a downright joyful series with great world-building.

The high-society scandal sheet of Lady Whistledown, which both starts the chapters and plays a key plot point in the series - who is Whistledown? she sure seems to enjoy writing about the Bridgertons! a multi-book mystery! - also gives us the simple answer to “what the books are about”. Alas I did not opt for the four-word answer, ha, but I am 100% sure the TV show was pitched that way: “think Regency Gossip Girl.”

& yes, Julie Andrews is the voice of Regency Gossip Girl and that choice alone makes me love the adaptation already. & the casting! I <3 the casting.

I suppose I had a phase of scorning happily-ever-afters, and while sometimes I doubt them, being able to rely on those in romance is a fantastic hallmark of the genre. With TV, happily-ever-afters and locked-in endgame couples do become more of a question mark, but I am excited to see what twists are taken and confident the core of the books will be captured. And, of course, the books will always be there.

I thoroughly recommend the Bridgerton series for anyone in the mood for anyone in the mood for reading some crème brûlée &, in a time when it’s really impossible to make plans or look forward to events, I am so looking forward to the Christmas gift of this show.

#bridgerton #books #booklove #romances #...i need better book tags!#or at least to remember what my better book tags are!#the happy few #netflix #julia quinn is on my shortlist of 'authors i have read everything by and will read everything they ever release'

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ntshastark · 3 years

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ok, I’ve finished watching it so here it goes:

Bridgerton final impressions

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

Daphne: I love her!!!!!!!!! I loved her on the book and I loved her on the show. My only complain is..... The Scene........ The way they changed it up made it so they could’ve easily swapped The Scene for a confrontation. I guess they didn’t want Simon to be the only asshole of the two but then they never addressed how Daphne was wrong too??? They just use the Whistledown voice-over to basically say “oh she’s desperate so it’s understandable” and then kinda shift all the blame onto Violet - and, don’t get me wrong, her sex talk is shit and she should know it, but what Daphne did was already after Rose really explained her how sex really works, so ignorance isn’t really an excuse....

Simon: I love him!!!!!!!!! I loved him on the book and I loved him on the show. My only complain is how they handled his daddy issues arc’s resolution. Like, Daphne just tells him he doesn’t need to be perfect to be loved and! Just like that! He is cured! Childhood trauma? I don’t know her! They don’t even address the real problem, which is Simon going from living to please his father to living to spite his (dead) father, and the book just handled it SO WELL, I really don’t understand why they changed it in the show.

I hope Simon and Daphne don’t get brushed off to the side now that their book’s story is over. Simon and Anthony’s friendship still needs a little patching up; there’s the Will and Alice storyline that, if they choose to continue, Simon will likely be involved in; and Daphne is pregnant during Anthony’s book, so they can do something about that too, and maybe about her helping out Eloise during her first season... I know they won’t be the focus of the story ever again, but I just hope they keep showing up like ABC and E did on this season, and aren’t just mentioned to be doing their own thing off-screen like Francesca was.

Anthony: .......................................................Sigh. I don’t know who that incompetent, irresponsible, lovesick idiot is, but it’s sure as hell not Anthony. They literally took everything about his character, cut into pieces, made a nonsensical collage and called it characterisation. The real Anthony has an incredibly strong sense of duty and responsibility to both his title and his family, because he feels he has to do it as good as his father would - which, in his head, is perfection. He doesn’t skip and/or arrives late to important events because he’s fooling around with his mistress, and he wouldn’t just wave away his responsibilities to his brothers - especially because they are also his responsibility. The real Anthony cares deeply about the happiness of his siblings, and does everything to secure them the Happily Ever After he himself doesn’t believe he’ll ever have. He would never force one of them to marry someone they clearly despise, especially with no serious reason. The real Anthony was a rake who jumped from bed to bed without letting himself create real attachments, because he deeply believes he’s going to die young and can’t bring himself to make someone go through the same pain his mother did when his father died. He simply wouldn’t remain seeing a woman if he thought he was developing feelings for her - and that only changed when he was forced to marry Kate - and he definitely wouldn’t ask someone to run away with him when he’s finally free of society, jesus fucking christ what the hell even was that?????? And so they - knowing he was going to be next season’s protagonist, mind you - took all of the characteristics Anthony developed in the 10 years since his father’s death, largely because of Edmond - both in how he raised him and in how his death traumatised him - and said “hey, what if we make all of this happen in like 3 months, and be all about that opera singer he kissed once in the book!”

Violet: I love her, but I feel like they sacrificed a lot of Anthony’s character for her sake......... The Nigel thing is a great example of that: The way she solved it was amazing, but for that to happen they had to make Anthony cause the problem in the first place, which was so ooc it physically hurt. And the way she’s constantly reminding him of how much he sucks as a Viscount, and even straight up saying that his father would’ve been much better was icky tbh

Eloise: Loved how they explored her relationships with Daphne and Benedict - and the queen thing was funny - but that’s about it. She’s so incredibly entitled holy fuck. Combine the fresh-faced feminist who just learned the buzzwords and now thinks sexism is the single biggest plague to ever walk this earth with the spoiled rich girl who wants the entire world to bend to her whims and refuses to do anything she doesn’t want, and that’s how you get show!Eloise. But, tbh, I don’t really mind. She’s a teenager, that’s just how teenagers are. We didn’t really see that much of her before the time jump in the books, she has a long way to go until her story takes center place, and I’m perfectly ok with us watching how she becomes the woman we see in TSPWL. Basically, not that big of a fan of her characterisation, but she is in a spot where she can spend some time turning into the woman from her book - unlike Anthony :)). My big issue is actually how her going from vehemently anti-marriage as a teenager to happily married and with a bunch of kids as an adult is going to feed such a tired trope...

Penelope: I love her, obviously, but oh boy is she fucked. I agree very much with this post re: what she did to Marina. I guess, because LW was initially just a writing device to allow for exposition, the show is gonna go WAY deeper into how the things that happen to Penelope (and her being a teenager) affect what she writes, and into the consequences of doing what she’s doing, but honestly? They might have overplayed it...... I really don’t see how in the fuck they’re gonna make the ending of RMB work in the show’s universe - and I already thought the books glossed over the consequences way too much. So, uh. Good luck I guess.

(Also, I wonder what they’re gonna do about that heir cliffhanger. I just assumed Penelope was gonna do what she does in the books and find a way to give part of the Whistledown money to her mother. Gotta admit it never occurred to me that, with all the Featherington children being women and their father being dead, the title and what comes with it technically belonged to a uncle or cousin or something)

Marina: I fucking hate them for making me get attached to her knowing what’s gonna happen. This poor girl, jesus christ. And, ok, a lot of times she seemed rude and ungrateful but 1. Her situation was fucking terrifying and 2. She was suddenly thrown into this world of pampered, superficial, and naive girls, and that can test anyone’s patience. Also, yeah, the whole manipulating Colin thing was not cool, but, again, it was either that, an elderly likely-abusive husband, or a life of shame on the margins of society, so uhhh.

(Also, that scene when she said she would love for her, Penelope and Eloise to be sisters........ And I thought Eloise becoming Oliver and Amanda’s mother couldn’t hit me any harder......... Imagine an AU where George survived and he and Marina get married and Eloise marries Philip and Penelope marries Colin and they’re all sisters-in-law to each other and I cry my eyes out)

Colin: Gotta be honest with ya, chief... I don’t think he passes the sexy lamp test. Missed his and Daphne’s special relationship, missed his love of food, missed his sense of humour... At least he and Penelope were cute. I’m actually already shipping them more in the show than in the books.

Benedict: I think they’re trying to mirror him being in a relationship with a woman of no status (now Genevieve, then Sophie) with being gay and hmm. Really not sure about it. He does seem bicurious to me but I think they’re hesitant to give him an arc focused on exploring his sexuality when we know his love story is gonna be with a woman (but then again, they weren’t afraid of giving Anthony an arc about having a relationship with a woman of no status when we know his love story is gonna be with a perfectly respectable one, so *shrugs*). Once again, very glad they decided to make him and Eloise so close from the get-go. It’s going to make that scene on TSPWL where Benophie’s son gets sick so much more meaningful and painful, I can’t wait.

Siena and Genevieve: They’re both amazing women with an incredible friendship. Benedict and Genevieve have the relationship I was hoping Anthony and Siena would have, from the trailers.

Francesca: Glorified cameo. Disappointing. I know she doesn’t show up much in the books other than her own, but that should just have been seen as an opportunity to do whatever they wanted with her! Not make her disappear for 6/8 episodes! Hope they show more of her on the next season.

Gregory and Hyacinth: They’re baby. The scene where Gregory makes both Anthony and Simon fall on the water should’ve been there. Loved Hyacinth acting like she’s Simon’s BFF. Loved that they cut Hyacinth’s “wait for me” scene bc it reminded me too much of my annoying little cousin and made me not like her for the longest time.

Lady Danbury: 10/10. Please hit me with your cane. Am currently entertaining the idea of having her and Violet get together.

Barry B. Benson: A cold-blooded murderer

Overall: This didn’t fit into any character, but oh god........... the lack of chemises............ But I loved the show, even if some things annoyed me, and I can’t wait for season 2 AND MY GIRL KATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

#spoilers #bridgerton spoilers #the bridgerton spoilers #f: the bridgertons #s: bridgerton #t: talk post #mari rants

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